Btw, the shadow stuff is actually at the Windows level. You'd have to do some pretty low level hacks to remove it from what I understand. That or force everyone to turn off drop shadows in their Windows theme :).
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Tony Barbieri <great...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yea, that is one downside. We worked around it by doing the following: > > class ClosePopupFilter(QtCore.QObject): > > def eventFilter(self, target, event): > if event.type() == QtCore.QEvent.WindowDeactivate: > target.close() > return False > class Popup(QtGui.QWidget): > > def __init__(self, parent=None): > super(Popup, self).__init__(parent) > > self.__popup_filter = ClosePopupFilter() > self.installEventFilter(self.__popup_filter) > > > self.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint | > QtCore.Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint | > QtCore.Qt.CustomizeWindowHint | > QtCore.Qt.Tool) > > > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <fr...@ohufx.com> > wrote: > >> Ah, thanks. >> one issue I see the Qt.Tool flag is that it won't close the widget when I >> click outside of it, something the Qt.Popup flag does for me. >> >> But I guess I can re-implement one of the event handles to reproduce this >> behaviour. MIght be easier than hunting down whatever would suppress the >> shadow in the default palette. >> >> Cheers, >> frank >> >> >> On 12/07/14 12:28 PM, Tony Barbieri wrote: >> >> Hey Frank, >> >> Checkout this page: http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qt.html >> >> Here is the description for those two flags: >> >> Qt::Popup 0x00000008 | Window Indicates that the widget is a pop-up >> top-level window, i.e. that it is modal, but has a window system frame >> appropriate for pop-up menus. Qt::Tool 0x0000000a | Window Indicates >> that the widget is a tool window. A tool window is often a small window >> with a smaller than usual title bar and decoration, typically used for >> collections of tool buttons. If there is a parent, the tool window will >> always be kept on top of it. If there isn't a parent, you may consider >> using Qt::WindowStaysOnTopHint as well. If the window system supports it, a >> tool window can be decorated with a somewhat lighter frame. It can also be >> combined with Qt::FramelessWindowHint. >> Glad it helped! >> >> Best, >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <fr...@ohufx.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Great, that did in deed fix it, thanks so much!! >>> Can somebody explain what those two flags actually try to do? I'm still >>> finding it difficult to find comprehensive documentation about flags in >>> general. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> frank >>> >>> On 11/07/14 11:23 PM, Tony Barbieri wrote: >>> >>> Hey Frank, >>> >>> I'm pretty sure we use the QtCore.Qt.Tool flag rather than the >>> QtCore.Qt.Popup flag to deal with removing the shadow. If that doesn't >>> work I can look deeper into how we've dealt with this. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx <fr...@ohufx.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I was given some code that uses a QWidget, makes it completely >>>> transparent, then adds a custom paintEvent to draw some custom items. >>>> This is meant or a fancy right click menu. Under OSX it ll looks swell, >>>> but under windows I get the default drop shadow, because of the >>>> QtCore.Qt.Popup flag. >>>> e.g.: >>>> class MyMenu(PySide.QtGui.QWidget): >>>> >>>> def __init__(self): >>>> QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self) >>>> self.setAttribute(QtCore.Qt.WA_TranslucentBackground, True) >>>> self.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.Popup | >>>> QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint) >>>> >>>> w = MyMenu() >>>> w = show() >>>> >>>> What is the easiest way to turn off that off (drop shadows for >>>> transparent widgets just look irritating :-D )? I guess I could inherit >>>> from QMenu instead of QWidget but would expect more work to get it to >>>> it's current state and am not entirely sure if that would fix the issue. >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> frank >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> PySide mailing list >>>> PySide@qt-project.org >>>> http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/pyside >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Tony >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Tony >> >> >> > > > -- > Tony > -- Tony
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